The 2022 Canadian Seal hunt

[Catherine]

The Canadian Seal hunt resumed earlier this month. Once again the government subsidizes a brutal slaughter of baby seals. The allowable catch this year is 400,000. That is a lot of dead baby seals, at a time when the market for seal products is declining. It started with the ban on killing the newborn white furred babies. It has expanded. The European Union has restricted the sale of seal products. There are now 36 international trade bans on Canadian seal products.
So why are they still killing the seals?

https://www.ifaw.org/press-releases/2022...nt-resumes

Seriously, why are they killing the seals? There is no market for them. They are not worth what they used to be so this is no longer a profitable business. It would be better to use government money to retrain people for new jobs and establish new industries. 
The seal hunt is a thing of the past. It is time we left it in the past.

If Iceland can give up whaling, we can give up seal hunting.
They could set up a whole ecotourist thing where they take people out on the ice to see the seals. That would need hotels and restaurants and various shops on land as part of the tourism package. It would be sustainable and far more profitable than killing the seals. An it would remove a stain from the ice and from the country and I most of us want that.